ANOTHER Israeli excursion in the Gaza Strip – another low register on the media’s Richter scale.

HOW about a penalty points system for those driving our economy? Are Charlie McCreevy and his cohorts really fit to be behind the wheel?

THE MOST disturbing aspect of the Keane-McCarthy debacle has been the success of British tabloids in setting and ruthlessly pursuing their negative agenda.

MUCH of Bruce Springsteen’s new album, ‘The Rising,’ is about the heroism of firefighters and ordinary New Yorkers on September 11 last year.

IN DUBLIN, Luas was the only consolation for many enduring 40-minute waits in the rain for buses that should be every five minutes.

WHAT’s the big fuss about Pop Rivals and Popstars’ contestants being over-age or under-age, and hence ’fake?’ Isn't fakeness the ‘star quality’ that ties the whole sorry business together?

NOT so long ago, many of us were clamouring vehemently for the separation of Church and State, resenting the perceived stranglehold of the Church over our lives.

IS IT really necessary for all Irish soccer fans to be either anti-McCarthy or anti-Keane?

NOW that Dublin's traffic problems have been officially labelled as the world’s worst (with the hardly redeeming exception of Calcutta) it is a little disconcerting to see such widespread whingeing and nimbyism every time an attempt is made to wake the city from its infrastructural nightmare.